UMFF 2024. 9. 27 - 10. 1

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Screening Program  /   Korean Wave

Track_ing

Track_ing

  • Korea, Kazakhstan
  • 2024
  • 23min
  • Documentary, Experiment
  • color

Schedule

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  • 09.30 MON18:00
    Alps Cinema 4

SYNOPSIS

A set of 500*500 pixel boxes begins tracking a group of images of a train running between Korea and Kazakhstan. The boxes generate outputs: K-pop, nomad, motion sickness, Koryo-saram, and space trip. Logical explanation and narrative are absent. The meanings of the data pieces can only be inferred by their juxtaposition and assembly. And we are very much used to it. 

NOTE

[Lee Chan-yeol, Cho Han-na, Samgar Rakym & Ali Tynybekov, Directors​]

AI engines can yield outputs from whatever random data they are fed. Often, they come up with uncanny results. Is this due to an incomplete algorithm? Or is it a depiction of the sense of randomness we encounter among the myriad of data?  

Photo

Director

Lee Chan-yeol, Cho Han-na, Samgar Rakym, Ali Tynybekov

Chan-yeol, Han-na, Samgar, and Ali are directors based in Korea and Kazakhstan. They co-directed Track_ing as Team 2K at a documentary workshop commemorating the two countries' 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations. 

Credit

Producer
Cho Han-na, Samgar Rakym, Lee Chan-yeol
Cinematography
Ali Tynybekov, Lee Chan-yeol, Cho Han-na
Editor
Cho Han-na, Lee Chan-yeol
Music
Park Dong-nyeok
Sound
Yoo Eui-jeong